Three-dimensional Characterization of a Heterogeneous Carbonate Reservoir, Lower Cretaceous, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

Yose, Lyndon A.; Ruf, Amy S.; Strohmenger, Christian J.; Schuelke, J.S.; Gombos, Andy; Al-Hosani, Ismail; Al-Maskary, Shamsa; Bloch, G.; Al-Mehairi, Yousuf Saadalla; Johnson, I.G.

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“…In contrast, the accumulation rate of carbonates decreased significantly around the center of the previous shallow-ramp area. This disparity resulted in a topographic depression (Bab Basin) surrounded by shallow-water platforms characterized by the aggradation of lower facies dominated by problematic microencrusters, Lithocodium aggregatum and Bacinella irregularis (hereafter referred to as "Lithocodium-Bacinella") ( Figure 3b), and upper facies dominated by rudists Yose et al, 2006Yose et al, , 2010Droste, 2010;Strohmenger et al, 2010]. The Bab Basin was eventually filled with a mixture of prograding carbonate clinoforms and argillaceous basinal deposits during the late Aptian sea-level fall [Murris, 1980;van Buchem et al, , 2010Pierson et al, 2010].…”

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“…A platform-and-basin topography existed during deposition of segment C7. Yose et al [2006] reported locally deposited organic carbon-rich sediments among the rudistdominated facies on the top of the platform interior. The local removal of organic carbon was probably the cause of the anomalously heavy d 13 C values for the rudist-dominated facies [Vahrenkamp, 2010].…”

Section: Variations In the D 13 C Values Influenced By Local Paleoenvmentioning

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Early Aptian paleoenvironmental evolution of the Bab Basin at the southern Neo‐Tethys margin: Response to global carbon‐cycle perturbations across Ocean Anoxic Event 1a

Yamamoto

Ishibashi²,

Takayanagi

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Geochem Geophys Geosyst

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[1] Lower Aptian carbonates in the Bab Basin at the southern Neo-Tethys margin record significant environmental changes across Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a (OAE1a). A long-lasting negative shift of carbon-isotope ratios (d 13 C) associated with a distinct decrease in oxygen-isotope ratios (d 18 O) in orbitolinid-rich carbonates characterizes the onset of OAE1a (Livello Selli), supporting a hypothesis that a long-lasting volcanic CO 2 emission is the main cause of OAE1a, inducing global warming. A bloom of microencrusters (Lithocodium and Bacinella) across the proto-Bab Basin occurred synchronously at the beginning of the subsequent positive d 13 C excursion, responding to the global carbon-cycle perturbations. The carbonates, formed during the OAE1a, show higher strontium-isotope ratios ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) compared with those of global seawater; this was likely caused by a local influx of isotopically heavier strontium, along with nutrients, into the proto-Bab Basin. These biotic proliferations were triggered by an increased nutrient supply induced by intensified continental weathering due to the global warming suggested by the increase in d second-order transgression and lasted until the early stage of the highstand after the OAE1a. The Livello Selli corresponds to the early stage of this transgression.

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Section: Regional Geological Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Variations In the D 13 C Values Influenced By Local Paleoenvmentioning

confidence: 99%

Early Aptian paleoenvironmental evolution of the Bab Basin at the southern Neo‐Tethys margin: Response to global carbon‐cycle perturbations across Ocean Anoxic Event 1a

Yamamoto

Ishibashi²,

Takayanagi

et al. 2013

Geochem Geophys Geosyst

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“…Numerical ages after Gradstein et al (2004). limestones represent a major reservoir in the Middle East, a considerable number of applied and fundamental papers have focussed on these carbonate rocks. These papers include, amongst many others: Owen & Nasr (1958); Simmons (1994); Vahrenkamp (1996); Masse et al (1997); Al-Awar & Humphrey (2000); Sharland et al (2001); Borgomano et al (2002); van Buchem et al (2002van Buchem et al ( , 2010a; Pittet et al (2002); ; Yose et al (2006Yose et al ( , 2010; Droste (2010); and Forbes et al (2010). Surprisingly, only a few of these studies provide more than a superficial description of the major discontinuity surface that caps the Lower Shu'aiba Member.…”

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“…The Aptian Shu'aiba Formation forms part of the autochthonous shelf deposits of the SE Arabian platform that span the Late Permian to Early Turonian and represents an important hydrocarbon reservoir throughout the entire Gulf region (Murris, 1980;Vahrenkamp, 1996;Alsharhan & Nairn, 1997;Sharland et al, 2001;Borgomano et al, 2002;van Buchem et al, 2002van Buchem et al, , 2010bDroste & Van Steenwinkel, 2004;Yose et al, 2006Yose et al, , 2010Droste, 2010). The Arabian platform consists of a carbonate platform complex that can be subdivided regionally into an intra-platform basin (Bab Basin) to the (south-)west of the study area with a fringing carbonate ramp system attached in the east and north-east (Fig.…”

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“…A regionally important and prolonged phase of mid to Late Aptian subaerial exposure of the top Shu'aiba platform is evident from seismic crosssections all around the margins of the Bab intraplatform basin (Yose et al, 2006(Yose et al, , 2010Droste, 2010), the presence of lowstand wedges proven from outcrops in the northern Oman Mountains (Hillgärtner et al, 2003;Gréselle & Pittet, 2005) and also the presence of incised valleys reported in the Shu'aiba platform margin of Qatar (Raven et al, 2010). It has been suggested that the drop in relative sea-level leading to the subaerial exposure was related to (a) eustatic event(s) and perhaps enhanced by a tectonic component (Montenat et al, 2003;.…”

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Surfaces with a long history: the Aptian top Shu’aiba Formation unconformity, Sultanate of Oman

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Discontinuity surfaces in shallow‐marine carbonate successions may represent significant time gaps in the geological record of ancient epeiric‐neritic seas. Understanding the hidden geological information contained in major discontinuities is thus of key significance in palaeo‐environmental analysis, sequence stratigraphy, reconstructions of sea‐level change and basin evolution. In the present paper, the Aptian top Lower Shu’aiba Formation discontinuity in the Sultanate of Oman is taken as a prominent example of a regionally extensive (>100 000 km2) surface with a long (up to 10 Myr) and complex geological history. The top Shu’aiba discontinuity formed on the topographically elevated domain of the Oman platform and represents in essence the Late Aptian time interval. Coeval carbonates in the intrashelf Bab Basin and oceanic rim indicate forced regression and sequence‐wise, gradual down‐stepping. Available regional, sedimentological, sequence‐stratigraphic, petrographic, palaeontological and geochemical evidence from outcrops and cored wells in Oman is summarized, in part complemented by new data, and reviewed in a process‐oriented context. In the field, the discontinuity is expressed as a low relief, stained surface with evidence for a marine hardground stage being dominant. Indistinct features that indicate a transient meteoric precursor stage (isotope shifts, meteoric cements, circumgranular cracks, etc.) are present but their interpretation requires careful and detailed work. This feature is remarkable, as a series of relative sea‐level falls with amplitudes of up to several tens of metres from the Early to Late Aptian boundary to the end of the Aptian are reported from the Middle East and elsewhere. Despite the palaeogeographic position of the study area in the tropical climate zone, evidence of deep‐cutting karst features, characteristic for many long‐term exposure surfaces worldwide is scarce. Acknowledging the fact that the modern world offers no genuine analogues for the Lower Aptian carbonate system in Oman, morphological similarities between actualistic, wave‐eroded coastal terraces and the top Shu’aiba discontinuity are discussed critically. This discussion may imply that, during an exposure time of several million years, the top Shu’aiba discontinuity experienced repeated stages of shallow flooding and emergence, with each transgression removing portions of the underlying rock record. The data shown here exemplify the complexity of hiatal surfaces in epeiric‐neritic carbonates and may serve as a case example for other major discontinuities.

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Giant subaqueous carbonate dunes: a revised interpretation of large-scale oo-bioclastic clinoforms in the middle Jurassic of the Paris Basin and its implications

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Brigaud

Thomas

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Three-dimensional Characterization of a Heterogeneous Carbonate Reservoir, Lower Cretaceous, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

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Early Aptian paleoenvironmental evolution of the Bab Basin at the southern Neo‐Tethys margin: Response to global carbon‐cycle perturbations across Ocean Anoxic Event 1a

Early Aptian paleoenvironmental evolution of the Bab Basin at the southern Neo‐Tethys margin: Response to global carbon‐cycle perturbations across Ocean Anoxic Event 1a

Surfaces with a long history: the Aptian top Shu’aiba Formation unconformity, Sultanate of Oman

Giant subaqueous carbonate dunes: a revised interpretation of large-scale oo-bioclastic clinoforms in the middle Jurassic of the Paris Basin and its implications

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